The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1887-09-10
LINCOLN AS IT Is.

An absence oi halt the week ut
Lincoln, in 81 .ndanco as II locker
on at the Di rict Court, prevented
us from attending 70 the collecting
of the usual modicum of local
news. But we approhond that our
readers have lost hut little in not
being provided with what we might
have found had we been at home.
The attendance ut the term of
court has been large, and repre-
sented all sections Of the county.
The docket is a pretty large one,
but it is made up to q considerable
extent of tired cases, cases involv-
ing legal possession of property,
commenced with the view of tir
ing opposing litigant5 and forcing
them to compromise by giving
something for nothing-hence,
formal call, and formal melton TO
continue, usually ensues, causing
the mere attention Of the court
only this, and nothing more"
Tie event OF the term, was the
open examination Of E. Mob. Ii
money, on his application for ad
mission to the bar OF this judicial
district and Ter ritory. Messrs.
Fountain and Fer gussOn were ap-
pointed examiners, and for two
hours and half they held their
subject to searching investigation
as to his know edge OF law and
literature. We could scarcely re-
press the wish that retroactive
order could have been issued and
acted upon, requiring all who are
now through some inscrutable dis
pensation, pr lcticing law, were
put upon a similar griddle. We
feel assured that some OF them
could not have satisfactorily an
swered sin gle question, and II
put to the tes with the pen, would
have been fully as apt to spell
"lawycr," " liar" as not. But
Mr.. T. passed the ordeal, and the
report made by his examiners on
Monday, was very flattering. We
are glad to see the new course of
procedure adopted by the court.
To be lawyer carries with it the
presumption that the bearer of the
title is m an of culture, whereas
we not inh'equently find them un-
tutored bo ors, better fitted to rep
resent pu,npl,ins in corn fields,
than legal lights in a court room,
men who couldn't tor the life OF
them, tell whether Shakespeare
wrote II amlet or Hamlet wrote
Shakespe are.
Our court reporter tins week, as
last, pre- sented an accurate report
Of the court proceedings, leaving
us nothing to add. lie has not
his supo rior within our ken or the
Territory, as Il faciIo writer. Lin
coin st reefs are muddy, but the
people OF the burgh all wore sunny
smiles. Hotels and boarding hous-
es wer full, as were some Of the
visitors s, but good nature was at
treshe height. There is one thing
to adj nire IN the Lincoln people
they stand together, and pull to-
getho hor-there is not a scandal mon
ger among them, none to take III
tercst in seeing others miserable
and have time to take from their
own. affairs to employ in the GRIP
ping OF their neighbors. Then
the y always have a warm hand
grip for visitors whom they know,
and. those whom they don't know,
they " take in" as becometh Sama-
rit ans
From the time j. j. CockreIl
fir st located at Lincoln, Rev. Sigh
W as as unstinted as he was unwar-
ranted in his assaults upon him.
Last week, he slobbercd him with
the slime of his praise. The milk
in the cocoanut Is to be found in
our court report. Mr.. CoclrelI
serving as prosecuting attorney,
and at the Rey's expense and re
quest, continued the case brought
against HIM by late grand Jury
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